Final details for tonight's Newberg Report Book Release Event.

By Jamey Newberg | Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Slight change in plans for tonight. Due to the volume of auction items and an effort to give everyone a chance to come away with some memorabilia or other cool stuff, we’re going to raffle off a bunch of the items, saving the rest for the live auction.

And former Rangers outfielder Kevin Mench wants in on this. He’ll be with us tonight to sign autographs along with our other guests.

Full event details are below, but first here’s the information on the raffle and auction.

For every $10 you donate to the Emilie Parker Memorial Fund upon arrival, you will get one ticket for the raffle. Whoever makes the largest donation will get his or her choice of any of the following 12 items. The remaining 11 will be raffled off by drawing at 7:30 (we’ll sell raffle tickets until 7:30 but will continue to take donations after that as well). The raffle list:

All proceeds from the raffle and auction will go to the Emilie Parker Memorial Fund. Participation in the raffle and auction are reserved for folks present at the event.

However, if you can’t make it to the event and want to contribute to the Memorial Fund, you can go to Adam’s LoneStarBall website or Joey’s Baseball Time in Arlington site and do so. Several of you have also sent donations to my PayPal account (GJSneaker@sbcglobal.net), which is also fine. I’ll pass those along to the Memorial Fund along with tonight’s donations.

Other things to know:

The party is at the Arlington location of Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub & Grill, at 254 Lincoln Square, a few blocks west of Rangers Ballpark.

The autograph line will get moving at 6:00 pm, but you can arrive earlier if you’d like. We’ll plan to be at Sherlock’s until 9:00 pm.

There will be a set-up when you arrive where you can donate to the Memorial Fund (and get your raffle tickets) and can buy Newberg Report Bound Editions (I’ll have the 2013, 2012, and 2011 books on hand, and will ship any other editions to you at my cost tomorrow, so that you have everything in time for the holidays).

Again, though, while we’ve required the purchase of a Bound Edition in past years in order to get autographs, that is not necessary this year. I’d rather you donate to the Memorial Fund first, and then if you want I’m certainly happy to sell you a book.

We can take cash or checks, and I’m hoping to be set up to take credit cards as well.

You can bring your own stuff to get autographed, but please limit it to two autographs per baseball guest as you go through the line.

At 7:30 we’ll take a break from autographs so Luther and Caleb Davis of Davis Auctioneers can conduct the raffle and live auction. Autographs will resume after that.

Throughout the evening, Ben Rogers of ESPN 103.3 FM will emcee things, which will include interviews with our guests, Rangers minor league outfielder Preston Beck (a product of Bishop Lynch High School and UTA), Senior Special Assistant to the GM Don Welke, International Scouting Director Mike Daly, and former Rangers outfielder Kevin Mench.

Once the autograph line subsides, we’ll open up the floor for a Q&A/roundtable discussion.

Don’t hesitate to bring your kids, especially this year. The room will be non-smoking.

Thanks to everyone who has stepped up in such a huge way on this, and especially to those of you who are coming tonight or supporting the effort in some other way.

Emilie Parker Fund / AP

Robbie & Emilie.

Jamey Newberg

Dallas attorney Jamey Newberg has been commenting on Rangers from the big club down through the entire farm system since 1998.

Scott Lucas

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Eleanor Czajka

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